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The easiest way to sink Trump: hitting billionaires’ portfolios by reducing your spending on technology

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 27, 2026
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Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway

NYU professor and podcaster Scott Galloway has a theory: markets move Trump’s decisions more than protests ever could. His solution, outlined in Open Culture, is a coordinated consumer withdrawal — an economic strike.

If wealthy households reduced spending by 10% and middle and lower-income households by 5%, “you…

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